When faced with the wreckage in which several local business owner’s life’s work, their shops, were set ablaze and reduced to rubble after protests had devolved into riots in the Los Angeles’ Melrose District, occasioned by the death of George Floyd, a black man, at the hands of a white police officer in late May 2020, I used the artistic mediums of experimental filmmaking and sound collage to document and express my grief by comparing the effects of two types of disasters, riots and tsunamis.

Directed by Robyn Killian (USA)